720.3  Suborning perjury.

A person who procures or offers any inducement to another to make a statement under oath or affirmation in any proceeding or other matter in which statements under oath or affirmation are required or authorized, with the intent that such person will make a false statement, or who procures or offers any inducement to one who the person reasonably believes will be called upon for a statement in any such proceeding or matter, to conceal material facts known to such person, commits a class "D" felony.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 2645, 2646; R60, § 4272, 4273; C73, § 3937, 3938; C97, § 4873, 4874; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 13166, 13167; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 721.2, 721.3; C79, 81, § 720.3]


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